AN elderly Villa fan enjoying listening to his heroes play on his 30-year-old radio was left fuming after police ordered him to turn the volume down.

AN elderly Villa fan enjoying listening to his heroes play on his 30-year-old radio was left fuming after police ordered him to turn the volume down.

Matt Queenan, aged 77, said he was sitting in Solihull listening to a Villa match on his small transistor radio when a police-woman stopped and told him it was too loud.

"It was a lovely sunny day and I was just enjoying sitting in the sunshine outside the shops in Drury Lane listening to the match," said Mr Queenan, who lives in Hall Green.

"The next thing I knew, this police woman comes up to me and says that I'm disturbing the peace.

"She told me to turn my radio down and when I said it was hardly loud, she said some people might not like it at all.

"I couldn't believe it, it's not as if it was blaring out or anything, the radio's 30 years old and it was just playing normally.

"Just because she might not like football, it doesn't mean others don't.

"I did turn the volume down because she is the police, but I couldn't believe it. Especially as shortly afterwards a big group of youths tore past me on skate-boards and were kicking a box about making a real noise.

"I'm quite shaken about what happened, really, because I've never been in trouble with the police.

"The only other time I've been stopped was when I was driving along Blossomfield Road in Solihull in 1951 doing 27mph, which was over the speed limit.

"Surely the police have got better things to do than worry about the noise from a small radio?

"It's not nice to be singled out. I'm an old man and I was just sitting there minding my own business."

A West Midlands Police spokesman said Mr Queenan was not cautioned and said no officer had made a log of the incident which took place at around 4pm on Sunday, September 10.

"A police officer or police community support officer on routine street patrol may ask someone to turn down the volume of their radio if it's causing a potential nuisance," said the spokesman.